Re: new locale: de-utf?
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:57:21PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:19:53AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> >
> > Actually it should be named just "de", since the encoding is encoded in
> > the mo files as far as I know. (The GNOME 2.0 message catalogs are all
> > in UTF-8, for example.)
>
> Olaf sent me two de.po files --- one in UTF8, and one in 8859-15.
> What are the tradeoffs between using one charset versus the other?
None, the translator uses its preferred one, and gettext converts them
if necessary. You should ask him to send only one file, called de.po
whichever encoding is used.
Denis
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